date: Wed Mar 10 09:26:37 2004 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: renewal to: Tom Wigley Tom, Agree on Rachel Warren - her heart's in the right place, but not up to it. Doesn't seem to take advice that well either ! Good to hear about your CCDD renewal. I didn't get it to review, but I helped your cause by reviewing several very poor proposals ! Not surprised by Mike's lack of a reply - he seems too bogged down with administration and John S. to do much real research. All the paperwork here is getting out of control. UEA is changing to 4 big faculties (we'll be Science). It's supposed to save us money - according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers who UEA hired to assess how to run the University !! Unlikely to have been cheap. Most of their report was about teaching, the comments about research showed no understanding of how it's done. They said that getting the JIF (Govt. money for new buildings/lab equipment etc) money was a high-risk initiative !! When was getting ~£15M high risk ! It got us the new building (ZICER) and LGMAC( new lab equipment for the Lab. for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry). UEA needs to fund some technicians for the latter and some more support staff for the former. Buildings/equipment but no-one to run them ! CRU will be changing soon. Jean is leaving end of March to take up the position of WGII TSU lead - working at the HC, with Martin as WGII Chair. Her deputy at Exeter will be Chris Sear. Post for 4 years, then I think she'll retire. All means that I'll take over as sole Director with Keith as Deputy. I'm negotiating with Trevor to get some support here - i.e not to lose Jean's money. Hopefully will have someone good coming on the CRU staff and also someone to do much of the day-to-day running (the work Jean has been doing). Should all be sorted out by the time I see you in April. Chris Vincent will be Dean from August, when Trevor takes on his new PVC post for research here at UEA ! Chris seems much more honest than Trevor - hopefully not famous last wrods. So busy times the nest few weeks getting the best deal. Seem to have got Mike Salmon on the staff - almost. So no time to get Nino3.4 up on to the CRU web site. Remind me in April. Cheers Phil At 12:16 09/03/2004 -0700, you wrote: Oops. Too many 65s. There is no retirement age in the USA, so I have no plans to retire from NCAR. I got a renewal of my CCDD project, which is in principle for Oct. 2004 thru Sept. 2007. I will contact Janice re UK rules. A while back I sent a note to Mike Hulme suggesting he might like to pay me for helping them with their integrated assessment work -- and to relieve the DOE grant. They seem to be floundering there -- Rachel Warren seems to be totally hopeless (based on the stupid questions she asks me and/or Sarah), but I am not going to help them for nothing. Predictably, Mike hasn't replied. Have you looked at the new MAGICC/SCENGEN yet (I have not seen you on the downloader list)? You should check it out. Oxford should be interesting -- a nice small group. Tom. PS. I noticed that you still don't put the N3.4 SSTs on the CRU web page as an alternate Nino index. =========================== Phil Jones wrote: Tom, I presume you meant Jan 18, 2005 ! In 1965 you would have been 25 - your heydey. Mine was when I was 28 in 1970 ! Some people do work beyond 65, but the examples I've heard of have only been doing teaching. If you want to check then email Janice. There may be a way - but she seemed to think not. How long do you hope to go on working at NCAR? It is good news on the renewal. Still to get the official letter yet, but that should come soon - unless as usual DoE send it by ship. See you in Oxford in April. Cheers Phil At 16:34 04/03/2004 -0700, you wrote: Phil, Good news. You are correct, my 65th bithday is Jan. 18, 1965. I thought retired persons were allowed to be employed up to one-third time for the next 5 years? Tom. Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email [1]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------